Agendas

You used to trust your doctor, now you no longer can. You used to trust your dentist, but it's clearly also a scam. You used to trust the government, but they can't be trusted at all. You used to trust the bank, but the banks are behind it all. 

You used to trust your parents, but they lied to you from the start. You used to trust your school, but they perfected the art. You used to trust yourself, but the world has got to you. You used to trust the truth, but what, you ask, is true?

You used to trust your boss, but they all have an agenda. You have one yourself, it's an endless mind-bender. You used to trust in God, but let's say that's evolving. You need to trust in something, something to do the solving. 

You used to trust your food, it used to be so healthy. You used to trust the news, now that's owned by the wealthy. You used to trust naively, now you are no fake. You trust because you know...

...and you know 'cos you're awake.

Be selective

You don’t have to settle. You can have the best and do what you choose. You can work with the finest clients suited entirely to your style and preference.

Give yourself permission for this to transpire. Be selective and see what happens.

The selection process happens first in your head and your heart. The world follows. The universe gives you what you deem fitting for yourself.

Set your standards high and give yourself the benefit of all doubt. The journey is both outer and inner, as the two reflect each other.

Selectiveness occurs as you learn to love and respect yourself. 

You will find the sweet spot.

Patterns

Be mindful of old patterns. All patterns are old and they are holding you back. Be mindful of them every moment and you will dissolve them away as a way of life. You will awaken every moment. 

Awakening every moment is what we need. It’s who we really are. It’s who we long to be. It’s where the longing and the living come together and explode into being. It’s a place beyond patterns. It’s available to us right now.

 

Be mindful of your patterns. Instead of running on them like tracks, like a hamster in a cage or a rat in a maze, never reaching past the bars or seeing over the wall, look at them and face the discomfort of awakening. Employ them as gateways to freedom and new life. Embrace them as leverage for bliss.

Patterns are painful. They are comfortable to be in and painful to face and pass through. They are an avoidance of pain in the first place, they are a loss of vitality, which is a kind of dull agony, and then they are a pain to process. Patterns mean pain and pain brings awakening.

Be mindful of your patterns. Look out for them. Be on your path, and be on the lookout for old ways that are keeping you from it. Attend to those old ways. Be aware of them. Be open to letting them go. Be trusting of what you are doing and who you truly are, and surrender into it.

Convert your old ways into new ways by becoming conscious through what your old ways can teach you. What are you clinging to? What are you afraid of? What have you inherited or adopted unconsciously and never questioned? What buttons do you have that keep getting pushed? Be mindful of being pushed. Those triggers are patterns. 

Release who you no longer are, and find who you’ve always been.

Rush

There is no rush with anything important. The more important, the less of a rush.

Everything happens in good time: the grass grows, the seasons change, relationships begin and end, and businesses come into full bloom or die. You can try to accelerate some of these but they will just push back and put you in your place.

If things do happen faster, they are not real and robust. Only illusions can be altered.

Authenticity takes the time it takes.

Abandonment

How would you ever grow up if you weren’t abandoned? How would you ever realise your power if you weren’t abused?

How would you ever come home if you hadn’t got lost? How would you know that you know if you didn’t go to the ends of forgetting?


Desertion is divine.

Yes, you need nurturing to grow and come to fruition, but you need challenging, too. You need nourishing, but you need to find your own soul food.

If everything is taken care of, how will you ever venture out of the womb? If you are not given birth, how will you live? If you never leave the nest, how will you see the world? If you are not forsaken along the way, how will you truly know that everything is taken care of?

Yes, you need to be supported, but you need to be left alone to find your own way, discover your dignity, and forge your own spirit. Only in absolute abandonment do you see that you are nothing but supported.

If you are discarded by existence, orphaned by your parents, rejected by your lovers, unfinanced by your business, taken for granted for your talents, and forced to face full responsibility for yourself, you take root in life like you never knew you could.

A certain power comes to you, from within you and from all around you, which is invaluable in the extreme. You have to pay every price for it, giving your heart and soul, your time and your money, your work and your love, your patience and your persistence, and your life and your death, but it is more than worth it.

Growing up is everything you’ve ever dreamed of.

Abandonment is the ultimate gift.

Mastery

I have mastered a few things in my life and none of them mean anything. I am still mastering, more than ever.

Mastery is in the moment. It’s a living thing, a dynamic and ongoing state. It has no stasis. Whatever you achieve falls away immediately, which brings more opportunity for mastery.

You master nothing, which makes you not a master but nothing, too. The more you are nothing, the more mastery you exhibit. There is no you and no master, only mastery.

Each moment is the beginning of the next. There is simply intensifying presence.

Mastering your life is a process of forgetting yourself.